Large language models for information retrieval: A survey

Y Zhu, H Yuan, S Wang, J Liu, W Liu, C Deng… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
As a primary means of information acquisition, information retrieval (IR) systems, such as
search engines, have integrated themselves into our daily lives. These systems also serve …

Approximate nearest neighbor negative contrastive learning for dense text retrieval

L **ong, C **ong, Y Li, KF Tang, J Liu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Conducting text retrieval in a dense learned representation space has many intriguing
advantages over sparse retrieval. Yet the effectiveness of dense retrieval (DR) often requires …

[LIBRO][B] Pretrained transformers for text ranking: Bert and beyond

J Lin, R Nogueira, A Yates - 2022 - books.google.com
The goal of text ranking is to generate an ordered list of texts retrieved from a corpus in
response to a query. Although the most common formulation of text ranking is search …

Utilizing BERT for Information Retrieval: Survey, Applications, Resources, and Challenges

J Wang, JX Huang, X Tu, J Wang, AJ Huang… - ACM Computing …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Recent years have witnessed a substantial increase in the use of deep learning to solve
various natural language processing (NLP) problems. Early deep learning models were …

Pretrained transformers for text ranking: BERT and beyond

A Yates, R Nogueira, J Lin - Proceedings of the 14th ACM International …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The goal of text ranking is to generate an ordered list of texts retrieved from a corpus in
response to a query. Although the most common formulation of text ranking is search …

Pre-training methods in information retrieval

Y Fan, X **e, Y Cai, J Chen, X Ma, X Li… - … and Trends® in …, 2022 - nowpublishers.com
The core of information retrieval (IR) is to identify relevant information from large-scale
resources and return it as a ranked list to respond to user's information need. In recent years …

Query expansion by prompting large language models

R Jagerman, H Zhuang, Z Qin, X Wang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Query expansion is a widely used technique to improve the recall of search systems. In this
paper, we propose an approach to query expansion that leverages the generative abilities of …

PyTerrier: Declarative experimentation in Python from BM25 to dense retrieval

C Macdonald, N Tonellotto, S MacAvaney… - Proceedings of the 30th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
PyTerrier is a Python-based retrieval framework for expressing simple and complex
information retrieval (IR) pipelines in a declarative manner. While making use of the long …

Pseudo-relevance feedback for multiple representation dense retrieval

X Wang, C Macdonald, N Tonellotto… - Proceedings of the 2021 …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Pseudo-relevance feedback mechanisms, from Rocchio to the relevance models, have
shown the usefulness of expanding and reweighting the users' initial queries using …

ColBERT-PRF: Semantic pseudo-relevance feedback for dense passage and document retrieval

X Wang, C Macdonald, N Tonellotto… - ACM Transactions on the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Pseudo-relevance feedback mechanisms, from Rocchio to the relevance models, have
shown the usefulness of expanding and reweighting the users' initial queries using …